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Douglas Edward Reeman, who also wrote under the name Alexander Kent, joined the British Navy at 16, serving on destroyers and small craft during World War II, eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant. He taught navigation to yachtsmen and served as a script adviser for television and films. As Alexander Kent, Reeman was the author of the best-selling Bolitho Novels. His books have been translated into nearly two dozen languages.

Note: Unlike The Bolitho Novels and The Royal Marines Saga, The Modern Naval Fiction Library consists of standalone books.

Malta,1941. To Captain Richard Chesnaye, HMS Saracen is more than an obsolete ship with an ugly recent past. As the war enters a new phase Chesnaye recalls the Saracen of the First World War and the Gallipoli campaign and imagines a significant new role for them both. See Details

1942. Lieutenant-Commander David Howard’s orders were chillingly clear. There could be no mercy. To the men who fought to protect the vital, threatened Merchant Navy convoys in the Western Approaches, the Battle of the Atlantic was full-scale war. See Details

It's 1943, and the seas are haunted by Hitler's deadly U-boats and cruisers. After the mysterious death of the Reliant's last captain, Guy Sherbrooke is given command of the legendary battlecruiser. See Details

Burmese Coast, 1944 . . . After four years, the tide of war is turning in North Africa and Europe. The conflict in Southeast Asia, however, has reached new heights of savagery. The Special Operations mission off the Burmese coast requires volunteers. Both men with nothing to live for as well as men with everything to lose. See Details

The orders from the Admiralty to the Captain were explicit. He was to take his ship to the small island of Santu, which lay under threat of invasion from the Communist mainland of China, and evacuate the British colony there. See Details

As the grim years of the Second World War go by, the destruction of Allied shipping mounts. Out of the terrible loss of men and ships, the escort carrier is born. They were typically half the length and a third the displacement of larger fleet carriers. While they were slower, carried fewer planes and were less well armed and armored, escort carriers were cheaper and could be built quickly, which was their principal advantage. See Details

Captain David Blackwood is embroiled in the Boxer Rebellion. Ordered to escort a beautiful German countess on a dangerous journey up the Hoshun River, Blackwood sees death and slaughter unlike anything he has known. See Details

1970. Lieutenant Colonel Mike Blackwood’s son Ross is featured. From vicious guerrilla warfare in Malaysia, through the moral and political minefields of Northern Ireland, to the unpredictable South Atlantic, Ross is true to the tradition of the Royal Marines. See Details

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